The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-01-15
VALUABLE INFORMATION.


81 nave seen recent scientific article in
which Ills positively stated that an cleo
trio apparatus has been perfected by
which man may be enabled to shock
lion or other beast of prey in such a
manner as to take away his ferocity
and render him docile, kind and tract
able. l would like to know if such is
the case, and if so, whether the ma
chine can be procured at a nominal
cost have a position offered me next
season with an allied show as lion
tanner and its salary is better than
what am now receiving as q school
teacher have often thought 1 would
liketo be lion tanner if | could, in an
unostentatlous manner, remove the
ferodty from his nature No one loves
lions better than / do, but dislike the
senstion when they send their hot
breath down into my neck, and feel
theirbrlght red gooms in my person.
Tvo-Also, could you tell me wheth-
er this same electrical apparatus would
worl on large, anonymous dog with
a fieRe nature and low instinctsp
Thee-What is good for lacerated
would made partly by a barbed wire
f %sI SFfi'l}y BY a coarse self
Fow-Do you think that love is abid-
ing oris II ephemeral in its nature?
Five-lf\ do not succeed in getting
place as lioNtamer, would you assist me
to a POSITIONS conductor of a chair car
on some progressive railway?
eix-How d you like my penman-
ship?
Seven-State What you know of the
mind cure, of which we hear so much?
Eighth you hid your life to live
over again would yu be an humorist?
Answer: First-lyo years ago the
Pail Mall Gazette announced the appli-
cation of electricity T, the on-training
industry in such way as to make every
man his own lion tamel. Mr. Ranspach,
professional lion taner, was the in
ventor. 1t consists of astick three feet
in length, containing asupply of cleo
tricity sufficient for one application. 1t
was claimed for it by Mr.. Ranspach that
he had tried it on three lions, each of
whom Immediately retracted all he had
ever said derogatory to Mr.. Ranspach,
and hoped to do better in the future.
He also tried it on large streaked
tiger with aired morocco mouth from
Farther India. He had been in the man
eating trade while abroad, and had also
eaten several ladies. One season he ate
the entire crop of children in one pre-
cinct People at last got almost dis
couraged about trying to raise children
in that climate. Mr.. Ranspach shocked
this tiger with his Justly celebrated
shocker, and the huge brute became
perfectly tractable.
A large bear was treated for half an
hour, but did not get tame so fast as
could nave been wished. After he had
beer slbdued, as was supposed, he ate
part &At11l woman who lived near
Peoria, H., and who would have died if
the fragment eaten by the bear had not
been made of woven wire. This Incl
dent induced quite number of ladies
afterward to adopt this method of pro-
tecting themselves.
The boa constructor was the most
readily affected. He curled up in his
cage and did not awake for two days,
and when he did so his hat was four
sizes too small for his head. He showed
signs Of numbness also for three whole
days. The elephant became at once
wild and almost ungovernable on being
treated with electricity and it was de-
cided not to use it on him any more.
So you see the effect is not always the
same. In fact, the machine is not al
ways sure to operate, owing to defect
i've mechanism. A job printer from
St. Joe, Mo, was once asked by friend
of his. who was lion tanner, to sub
for him at a matinee, as he wanted to
go away and get married He had one
of these electric lion quellers, which he
told the job printer how to use, but
when he entered the cage and tried tC
squirt about twenty cents worth OF
electricity down the throat of big
open-faced lion, he found to his chagrir
that it would not work. Either the
electricity had escaped or had soured
so that it was of TO avail, and, as the
job printer did net know the way out o.
the den, he fed enc of his arms to the
fierce lion Will kind friends were heat
ing some pokfs to pry open the jaws
of the ferocioas brute. The job printer
afterwards prepared for the press {
scathing criticism on THE Uses ant
Abuses of Electricity"
YIN Gaado as you think best about
becoming lion tanner, but as for me,
would rather be Mexican hairless dos
hunting for the open Polar Sea than t.
earn $3.50 per day sticking my polished
dome of thought into the massive jaw
of an irritable Numidian lion.
8. For a lacerated wound made by ;
barbed wire fence and an impulsiv,
dog, would suggest change of scen'
and rest. You would rest standing III
no doubt better than any other way.
4. Love is sometimes ephemeral.